Africa

South Africa will introduce a national minimum wage of 3,500 rand (261 dollars) per month in 2018, Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Thursday, following protracted negotiations between the government …

Somali lawmakers voted for the country’s president on Wednesday, gathering in the safety of Mogadishu’s heavily fortified airport after months of delays and following threats from Islamist insurgents bent on …

Sudanese are reportedly set to demolish at least 25 Christian churches allegedly said to be “trespassing into residential areas”. According to Radio Tamazuj, religious leader, Meilad Musa, who is a …

The King of Morocco Mohammed VI delivers a speech in Addis Ababa on January 31, 2017.AFP/Zacharias Abubeker Morocco’s King Mohammed VI took a seat at the African Union headquarters on Tuesday …

African Union leaders have elected Chad’s candidate as the chairman of the 54-nation body on Monday at a summit where the divisive issues of Africa’s relationship with the International Criminal …

A Zambian law that entitles women to take one day off work a month when they have their period is stirring increasingly fierce debate in a country reluctant to discuss …

Airlines operating at Cairo airport were officially requested on Sunday to prevent U.S. immigration visa holders from seven Muslim-majority countries from boarding flights to the United States, Hossam Hussein, an …

Morocco is set to rejoin the African Union (AU) during the 28th African summit scheduled for Jan. 30 to Jan. 31 in Addis-Ababa, after leaving the pan-African organisation three decades …

The Islamist group al Shabaab said on Friday its fighters killed dozens of Kenyan troops when they attacked a remote military base in Somalia the previous day, a claim the …

Young boys become Bamasaaba men through Ugandan tribal circumcision, a ritual the Ugandan government plans to promote to international tourists. Every two years, a ritual that is a few centuries old …